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India-US row escalates over diplomat's arrest
Indian leaders boycott US congressional delegation and mull retaliatory steps over arrest of diplomat in New York.
Claim: Solar, AMO, & PDO cycles combined reproduce the global climate of the past
Guest essay by H. Luedecke and C.O.Weiss We reported recently about our publication [1] which shows that during the last centuries all climate changes were caused by periodic ( i.e. natural ) processes. Non-periodic processes like a warming through the monotonic increase of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause at most 0.1° to 0.2° warming […]
Useless or harmful: hand soap, vitamin pills, raw milk
Today, the news outlets are full of reports that some "common supplements" of the modern life that are believed to aid our health are claimed to be useless if not harmful. I will mention three independent major stories:FDA against anti-bacterial soapsPapers against vitamin pillsPaper counting illnesses caused by raw milkThe common theme is that it seem incredible to me that after so many years and after the sale of billions of these products for hundreds of billions of dollars, the question whether these things are helpful seems completely open.A typical Czech raw milk vendor machine

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Taking On The Gun Control Crazies
According to the FBI, “active shooter incidents” have tripled in recent years….then, they admit that it probably hasn’t. (See below). The vast majority of “active shooter incidents” do not end with dozens of deaths. Actually, most of them are foiled by brave bystanders or by the police, and the mainstream media flatly ignores those incidents. What the mainstream media focuses on and hypes to the e
Climate Fat Cats exposed with naked conflicts of interest. Where was The BBC?
Another cycle of the Climate Change Scare Machine is laid bare.  David Rose explains how those lobbying and advising the government on green policies are benefiting from green projects. It’s all in the  Daily Mail. The Green Industrial Complex has simply bought everyone off, and, cleverly, done it with your money. It’s the new business model really. Why work for customers and compete in the free m
Windscreen wipers could soon be obselete
McLaren is working on a new technology that could soon see traditional windscreen wipers disappear. The new windscreen clearing mechanism is based on ...
Demonic Possession and Stigmata with Craig Santy
Tonight, we welcome writer, artist, producer and paranormal/occult researcher Craig Santy to the broadcast. He was the producer of the Hollywood blockbuster “Stigmata”, as well as the television productions “Little Lost Souls: Children Possessed?” and “Crime 360″. website: Facebook, IMDB, Twitter
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Milner-Zuckerberg Prizes for Mathematics
At the Hollywood-style awards ceremony last night for $3 million string theory and biomedical research prizes, it was announced that Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg will now start funding something similar in mathematics, called the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. According to the New York Times: Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist and self-described “failed physicist” who made a splash two years ago when he began handing out lavish cash awards to scientists, announced Thursday that he was expanding the universe of his largess again: This time, he will begin handing out $3
Peter Higgs: “Today I wouldn’t get an academic job. It’s as simple as that”
The Guardian has an interesting piece about Peter Higgs, evidently their reporter talked to him on his way to the Nobel Prize ceremonies this week in Stockholm. Higgs will be speaking tomorrow (Sunday), and I’m curious to hear what he will have to say. His talk will be available live at the Nobel Prize website. Higgs points out that the kind of work he was awarded the prize for was done in an environment that no longer exists: He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today’s academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He
Controversy over Yau-Tian-Donaldson
The last posting here was about an unusually collaborative effort among mathematicians, whereas this one is about the opposite, an unusually contentious situation surrounding important recent mathematical progress. What’s at issue is the proof of what has become known as the “Yau-Tian-Donaldson” conjecture, which describes when compact Kähler manifolds with positive first Chern class have a Kähler-Einstein metric. This is analogous to the Calabi conjecture, which deals with the case of vanishing first Chern class. Progress by Donaldson on this was first mentioned on this blog here (based on h

Dec 11

2014 Milner Prizes
Last March an Oscar-style ceremony hosted by Morgan Freeman was held in Geneva (see here) to award the 2013 $3 million Milner Prize to Princeton string theorist Alexander Polyakov. Tomorrow an even more lavish ceremony designed to turn “Oscars of Science” into instant multi-millionaires will be held in Mountain View, California (see here). It will feature Kevin Spacey, Conan O’Brien and Glenn Clos

Dec 10

Latest on Amplitudes
This week the Simons Center is hosting a workshop on “The Geometry and Physics of Scattering Amplitudes”, talks are available here. Last week they (and the YITP) held a one-day symposium on Trees, loops and precision QCD, based around the work of Zvi Bern, Lance Dixon and David Kosower that was recently awarded the 2014 Sakurai Prize. For more about this, see Dixon’s guest post here, or his talk a

Dec 09

What’s Next?
Last week’s public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study by Nati Seiberg is now available online. He was speaking with the title What’s Next? and promoting a story about where particle physics is and where it is going pretty much identical with that coming from his IAS colleagues. Despite the overwhelming failure of string theory unification and the dramatic evidence from the LHC ruling out

Dec 05

News from CERN
Here’s a roundup of recent CERN-related news: The status of the LHC and the LHC experiments was discussed here yesterday. The LHC shutdown is more or less on track, first beams at 13 TeV total energy Jan. 2015, physics starting April 2015. Both ATLAS and CMS have announced new data on tau-tau decays of the Higgs, providing stronger evidence for this signal than was available earlier. ATLAS sees a

Nov 27

Quantum Mechanics and Representation Theory: talk and book progress
Last week I gave a colloquium talk at the Texas Tech math department, slides are here if you’re interested. One motivation for the talk was to advertise the book project I’m working on, which gives a lot more detail about these topics if you find something interesting in the slides. The current state of the book is visible here. There are 31 chapters done, about another 5 to go. I also need to go

Nov 20

Progress on Twin Primes
There’s a new paper out on the arXiv last night, Small gaps between primes, by James Maynard, which brings the bound on the size of gaps between primes down to 600. This uses some new methods, beating out the Polymath8 project, which has been improving Zhang’s original bound of 70,000,000, getting it down to 4680. To follow the Polymath8 project, the place to look is Terence Tao’s blog, here. They

Nov 17

Anderson 90th
Philip Anderson’s 90th birthday is coming up next month, and Princeton will host a workshop commemorating the event. Witten and Wilczek will give talks on the Anderson-Higgs mechanism, for which Anderson recently was not awarded a Nobel Prize (for the history of this, more here). Princeton condensed matter theorist Shivaji Sondhi has an article here about the role of Anderson in the Higgs story, r
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First Direct Measurement of Infection Rates For Smartphone Viruses
Nobody has ever accurately measured the number of smartphones infected with malware. Until now.
Wikipedia's Secret Multilingual Workforce
Wikipedia’s various language editions often carry entirely different content. Now one researcher has identified a small band of multilingual editors who are working to change that.
How Internet-Style Routing For Gas Could Dramatically Improve Europe's Energy Security
Routing gas around Europe using the same decentralised control techniques developed for the internet could reduce the way energy crises cascade, say network and complexity theorists.

Dec 14

Other Interesting arXiv Papers
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.Cellphone based Portable Bacteria Pre-Concentrating microfluidic Sensor and Impedance Sensing System

Dec 12

First Lasing Nanofibres Open the Way for Cheap, Soft Laser Textiles
By adding laser dyes to organic fibers, researchers have demonstrated a technique that should lead to textiles that lase at all visible frequencies. 

Dec 09

The Emerging Technologies Shaping Future 5G Networks
The fifth generation of mobile communications technology will see the end of the “cell” as the fundamental building block of communication networks.

Dec 06

Other Interesting arXiv Papers
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.Mobile and Remote Inertial Sensing with Atom Interferometers

Dec 05

Physicists Discover World's First Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator
The were first predicted in 2005 and first synthesized in the lab in 2008. Now physicists have discovered a naturally occurring topological insulator that can be mined from the earth’s crust.Topological insulators are one of the more exciting new materials in science. This stuff is odd because is a conductor on the surface but an insulator inside, rather like a block of ice in which melting water

Dec 04

The Future of Photography: Cameras With Wings
The next generation of photographers will think nothing of taking a camera out of their pocket and releasing it to the skies, like a dove to the wind.

Dec 03

Data Mining Reveals the Secret to Getting Good Answers
If you want a good answer, ask a decent question. That’s the startling conclusion to a study of online Q&As.If you spend any time programming, you’ll probably have come across the question and answer site Stack Overflow. The site allows anybody to post a question related to programing and receive answers from the community.
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Federal Judge: NSA Phone Records Dragnet 'Likely Unconstitutional', 'Almost Orwellian'
A federal judge has found the bulk collection of metadata of U.S. phone calls to be "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary" and, therefore, in violation of the Constitution's 4th Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. His opinion was hailed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden who has been asserting that point as the central basis for his having leaked thousands of classified documents in regard to programs run by the federal agency. Politico's Josh Gerstein, who appears to have been the first to break the news today, reports it this way... A federal judge rul
Federal Court Denies 'True the Vote' Attempt to Intervene in Texas Photo ID Restriction Law Case
A federal District court judge has nixed a rightwing "voter fraud" group's Motion to Intervene on behalf of the state of Texas in the U.S. Dept. of Justice's lawsuit to block the Lone Star state's polling place Photo ID restriction law. Last month, The BRAD BLOG reported on the DoJ's Opposition motion filed in response to the motion by the Republican "voter fraud" fraudsters who call themselves "True the Vote" (TTV). In its motion, TTV sought to become a party to the DoJ's federal legal challenge to SB-14, the state's polling place Photo ID restriction law which T
'Green News Report' - December 12, 2013
  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Scientists warn of abrupt climate change; Prominent scientists call for a carbon tax... while Big Oil is secretly planning for it; FDA moves to ban some antibiotics in factory farming; PLUS: After moving to claim the North Pole as their own, Canada promises to protect Santa from the Russians ... All those new fronts in the War on Christmas in today's Green News Report! Listen online here, or Download MP3 (6 mins)... Link: Embed: 'Green News Report' w/ Brad Friedman & Desi DoyenDecember 12, 2013Click to listen (or download)More info on today's report here..

Dec 12

Yet Another Reason Internet Voting is a Terrible Idea: Targeted Attacks Hijacked 'Vast Amounts of Data' to Foreign Countries Earlier This Year
[This article now cross-published by The Progress...] We've discussed, many times over the years, the madness of Internet Voting schemes. Today we've got yet another piece of disturbing evidence that underscores why such a scheme for American democracy would be nothing short of insane. The BRAD BLOG has highlighted how easily Internet elections can be hacked by all sorts of nefarious folks (perhap

Dec 11

Bush-Appointed Director of Federal Housing Agency Finally Replaced After Filibuster Change
Yesterday, nearly five years after President Barack Obama first assumed office, the U.S. Senate removed what has been described by some progressives as the "single largest obstacle to meaningful economic recovery" when it was finally allowed to vote for the confirmation of Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) as the new Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). In a vote allowed by a recent

Dec 10

'Green News Report' - December 10, 2013
  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The climate action legacy of Nelson Mandela; Historic water compact in the volatile Middle East; Air pollution linked to autism; Water pollution linked to miscarriages; PLUS: Canada is claiming the North Pole because... drill baby drill ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Listen online here, or Download MP3 (6 mins)... Link: Embed: 'Green News

Dec 09

New Law Brought to State Legislature by Citizen Election Integrity Advocate Now Makes It Slightly Easier to Oversee Election Results in CA
I'm in the middle of a number of other things, but I wanted to just offer a quick --- and very belated --- note of congrats to longtime citizen Election Integrity advocate Tom Courbat of Riverside County, CA. (Decidedly not to be confused with Pennsylvania's democracy-hating Gov. Tom Corbett.) Late in the summer, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed AB 831, a short and simple bill, brought to th
Government Slices Through RW Propaganda in SCOTUS 'Obamacare' Contraception Cases
[This article now cross-published by The Progress...] The government's Supreme Court petition [PDF] in the upcoming cases concerning a supposed 'religious right' of for-profit corporations to ignore the contraceptive coverage mandate of the Afford Care Act (ACA) is a worthwhile read, simply because it slices through the fog of the GOP's relentless, anti-Obamacare propaganda war. That war includes

Dec 06

In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela...
NELSON MANDELA, 1918 - 2013
Maine Governor Celebrates Global Warming For Opening Up Frozen Oil Shipping Passages
I asked on Thursday's Green News Report, but it deserves highlight and asking again: Is Maine's Governor Paul LePage (R) the dumbest governor in the country? Or the dumbest governor in history? Via David Edwards at RAW STORY... Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) on Thursday encouraged people to look on the bright side of global warming. At the 64th annual Maine Transportation Conference, the governor buck

Dec 05

'Green News Report' - December 5, 2013
  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama 'finds the courage': orders federal government to increase use of renewable energy; Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) celebrates melting Arctic; ALEC and Koch Bros. launch an attack on solar; Solar panel maker takes on Germany's electric utilities; PLUS: The Heartland Institute is lying again, this time about the American Meteorological Society ... All that and more i
Clear Channel to Remove L.A. and San Francisco's Only Commercial Progressive Talk Radio Stations, Replace Them with More Rightwing Talk
The largest media market in the world is about to lose its only non-Rightwing commercial talk radio station. Los Angeles' KTLK 1150am will be flipped to a far Rightwing station featuring hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and other rightwing talkers. "The changes are set to take effect for the first broadcast of 2014," according to the Los Angeles Times this afternoon. KT

Dec 03

'Green News Report' - December 3, 2013
  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's official: Hottest spring on record Down Under; Big Fossil Fuel = Big Tobacco; BP suit halts Gulf Oil Spill compensation; New rules for toxic flame retardants; Say goodbye to antibacterial soaps; PLUS: Wall Street may finally be looking to cover its (unburnable) assets ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Please help us connect the climate change d
Yes, Santa Claus, There is a Virginia: 'Recount' and Potential 'Contest' Still Ahead in VA AG Race
Election 2013 is but a memory --- good or bad --- for much of the nation. But, in Virginia, election officials, attorneys and partisans will still be busy as elves throughout much of the holiday season, and potentially even beyond, determining final results of the statewide November 5th Attorney General's election this year. Last week, on the day before Thanksgiving, Virginia's Republican AG candi

Dec 01

'Haunting Parallels' in Denialist Tactics of Big Tobacco and Big Fossil Fuel
Great thanks to Peter Sinclair and his "Climate Denial Crock of the Week" last week for plotting this out in a quick video. The parallels between the denialist PR scams, lies, pretend science, spending and attacks by both 'Big' industries here are, indeed, striking. It's also interesting to see both Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the man who apologized to BP after the 2010 Gulf Oil Disaster, an

Nov 26

'Green News Report' - November 26, 2013
  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Last-minute agreement at contentious UN climate talks in Warsaw; U.S. methane emissions 50% higher than previously thought; World's 1st genetically modified food animal one step closer to market; PLUS: Ontario, Canada breaks up with coal, and Al Gore is happy about it! ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Help us continue connecting climate change dots
CBS' Lara Logan, Her Producer, to Take 'Leave of Absence' Following Bogus Benghazi Report
[This article now cross-published by Salon...] In the wake of 60 Minutes' bogus Benghazi report, starring an eye-witness who, as it turns out, appears to have completely lied about being there during the 2012 attack on the U.S. compound which resulted in the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. personnel, rightwing reporter Lara Logan and her producer will be taking a &quo
JFK on 'The Most Powerful and Precious Right'...
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Nov 25

Dumbest Wingnut of the Week? Or Dumbest Wingnut Ever?
I'd hate for this rather high-larious conversation to get lost. Aside from being hysterical funny, to me, anyway, it's also quite illustrative of how wingnuttery works these days. Purposely disinformed boobs are given false information by Rightwing corporate charlatans to create an army of pawns and stooges all to ready to spread the disinformation. Those pawns and stooges occasionally show up in

Nov 24

Health Care Spending Flattens Since Passage of 'Obamacare', Corporate Media Fail to Notice
Let's keep this a secret from the U.S. corporate media, but, as Sy Mukherjee and Andrew Breiner note at ThinkProgress... On Wednesday, the new head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a bombshell report finding that U.S. health care spending since 2010 has increased by just 1.3 percent - the smallest cost growth over a three-year period in American history - while prices in th

Nov 22

Deeds Released from Hospital: 'I Am Alive So Must Live'
Let's end this week far better than it began On Tuesday, Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) was stabbed multiple times in his own home, by his son Gus who, having reportedly had a mental evaluation the day before, was not kept overnight, due to lack of bed space in western Virginia. Gus shot himself to death that morning, after stabbing his father who was airlifted to the hospital in critical co
Senate Majority Invokes 'Democracy Option'
[This article now cross-published by The Progressive...] It took awhile. A few years even. But, on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) finally decided he'd had enough. By a majority vote of 52 to 48, the U.S. Senate changed their rules to partially end the filibuster, invoking what some refer to as the so-called "nuclear option". The rule change, which will permit an up-or

Nov 21

'Green News Report' - November 21, 2013
  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Impasse at the UN climate summit as developing nations walk out of negotiations; Just 90 companies responsible for most of man-made global warming emissions; 'Apocalyptic' rains strike again, this time in Sardinia; PLUS: Didja hear the one about the Polish environment minister who was fired in the middle of the UN climate summit in Poland? ... All of those hot messes
New Report Cites U.S. Chamber's $12m Plot Against BRAD BLOG, Other Progressive Groups
Oh, what fun. This, of course, is just one of the reasons why it's important that you help support and fund the work we do here at The BRAD BLOG. We're up against the unaccountable hoodlums and thugs like the far rightwing U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest lobbying organization in the world. So we must be doing something right. And there is no tactic too dirty for the slimeballs at the Chamber

Nov 20

The Walking Drudge: Be Very Afraid
Think I just figured out why Republicans are scared to death!!! of "illegal aliens". Republicans read the Drudge Report. And where ever Drudge says "aliens", they see "ZOMBIES!" instead. See this section from Drudge's homepage last night for instance... Scary, eh? Lock your doors! They're coming for you next!
VA AG Race: About That 500+ Vote Republican Pickup in Bedford County
Sometimes it's a good idea to get a full explanation before these things become fodder in a contentious partisan legal election contest. So that's what we've tried to do. Happily, the General Registrar of Bedford County, VA was more than willing to help. Last week, and the week before, The BRAD BLOG devoted quite a bit of coverage to the incredibly close Attorney General's race in Virginia. As of

Nov 19

'Green News Report' - November 19, 2013
  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Rare and deadly November tornado outbreak in US; Record and extreme weather disasters on the rise; Dangerous cleanup operation begins at Fukushima; PLUS: UN climate treaty negotiations stall ... All those dots connected and more in today's Green News Report! Please help us keep connecting the climate change dots over your public airwaves! PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DONATE!
Horrific News Out of Virginia
This story is horrific. It struck me even more so this morning, given that I had just been in contact with Virginia state Senator Creigh Deeds (D) last week on several occasions and had asked him to appear as my guest on the KPFK/Pacifica Radio BradCast. Deeds is currently said to be in critical condition after being stabbed multiple times today in his own home, "in the head and torso,"
Fox' Kurtz Slams Bogus CBS Benghazi Report, Ignores Fox' Benghazi Reports From Same Source
[This article now cross-published by Salon...] Over the weekend, new Fox "News" lamestream media warrior Howard Kurtz was appropriately critical of the pathetic "apology" CBS' 60 Minutes offered for their bogus Benghazi report which was based entirely on a lying "witness" to the September 2012 attack. (The guy was never there, the story was completely made up.) Fox do

Nov 18

Election Day 'Drug Bust' as Voter Suppression in NC Town?
From Brentin Mock of "Facing South", a publication of the non-profit Institute for Southern Studies... Residents of Mount Gilead, a town of about 1,100 people in central North Carolina, are reeling from a police sting operation that netted 59 arrests the morning of Election Day [11/5/2013]. All of those arrested were African Americans, all for possession of drugs, alcohol and guns. Some
All the King's Horses and all the King's Men...
The last graf from an AP article describing the plunge in spending by "outside" Rightwing groups, so far this year, on 2014 campaigns... Americans for Prosperity, a group backed by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers, saturated Iowa mailboxes and telephone lines recently to support conservative city council candidates [in the November 5, 2013 election]. But they all lost.
Warren: Republicans Helping to 'Rig the Court' Through Filibuster of D.C. Circuit Court Nominees
Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a former Harvard Law Professor, argued that Senators not only have the right, but a constitutional duty to change the Senate filibuster rules. She argued, in no small part to her fellow Democrats, that the rules were being abused by Republicans as part of a "naked attempt to nullify the results of the last Presidential election [in order] to force u

Nov 16

Climate Scientists Write Letter Urging Gov. Jerry Brown to Stop 'Fracking' California
In a letter this week, twenty of the nation’s top climate scientists urged Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) to impose an immediate moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing (aka "fracking") as a means for extracting oil and natural gas in the Golden State. Just days later, the state issued new draft regulations for "fracking". The new regulations were praised by the fossil fuel indu
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Scientists discover second DNA code
The breakthrough was made as part of a project funded by the US National Human Genome Research Institute. It has long been believed that DNA is respon...
Cairo sees snow for first time in 112 years
Abnormal weather across the Middle-East has seen snow in some regions for the first time in decades. Cairo is traditionally associated with sweltering...
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Was Noah's Ark a 'double-decker coracle' ?
Museum expert Irving Finkel believes that the biblical vessel wasn't the shape depicted in most pictures. A huge wooden boat large enough to house two...
NASA unveils prototype humanoid robot
The American space agency has revealed that it has been developing a 6ft robot known as Valkyrie. Weighing in at 20 stone, NASA's answer to Iron Man f...

Dec 15

China celebrates moon landing success
The mission represents the first time any spacecraft has soft landed on the moon in over 37 years. Some would say that China's space program has been ...
Are humans really smarter than animals ?
Evolutionary biologists believe that some animals possess superior cognitive abilities to humans. Scientists at the University of Adelaide have put fo...
Iran sends second monkey in to space
Iran's space program took another firm step forwards this week as a second monkey was flown in to space. President Hassan Rouhani announced that the p...

Dec 14

Could the universe be about to collapse ?
Scientists have highlighted the possibility that the universe may one day collapse in on itself. Despite the fact that the universe appears to be expa...
Could horoscopes be bad for you ?
While astrology may seem harmless, new research has suggested that it could have an unexpected dark side. The process of reading your star sign has lo...

Dec 13

Europa could be home to 200km high geysers
Geysers on Jupiter's icy moon Europa may reach heights 20 times greater than that of Mount Everest. The possibility was identified by researchers who ...

Dec 12

Starchild skull researcher Lloyd Pye has died
The author and paranormal researcher died on Monday evening at the age of 67 after a battle with cancer. Author of several books including the novels ...
Did dinosaur asteroid send life to Mars ?
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have also catapulted life to Mars and elsewhere. Panspermia is the idea that life, far from relying sole...
New greenhouse gas dwarfs CO2 impact
A recently discovered gas appears to be 7,000 times more impactful on climate change than CO2. Perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA) is a non-naturall...

Dec 11

Mars One announces satellite and lander
The company aiming to send humans on a one-way Mars trip is set to launch a robotic mission by 2018. With more than 200,000 applicants signed up for a...
Ancient hominin skeleton discovered
Fossil remains of an ancient hominim species dating back 1.34 million years have been unearthed. Discovered at the Olduvai Gorge site in Tanzania, the...
Supervolcano turns out to be double the size
The supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park is believed to be 2.5 times larger than earlier estimates. The natural beauty and hot springs of Yellows...

Dec 10

Strongest evidence yet found for life on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has provided enough evidence to suggest Mars could have supported life. Scientists studying the data and photographs retur...
Private investigator films UFO
An investigator watching a building in the early hours managed to film something unusual in the sky. Joe Rodriguez had been on stakeout in Los Angeles...
Vast undersea freshwater reserves found
An international team of scientists has discovered huge quantities of fresh water underneath the ocean. The researchers estimate that there could be u...

Dec 09

Coldest place on Earth discovered
Scientists have measured a record-breaking temperature of -91C on a mountain ridge in Antarctica. America's National Snow and Ice Data Centre made the...
130 million-year-old 'sea monster' found
Palaeontologists have uncovered the remains of a huge prehistoric predatory marine reptile. The fossil remains were unearthed in Boyaca, a landlocked ...

Dec 05

Hubble detects water on five exoplanets
The Hubble Space Telescope has picked up signs of water in the atmospheres of several distant worlds. Two teams of planetary scientists made the disco...
'World's scariest advert' unveiled in Japan
The paranormal themed tyre commercial is so terrifying that it comes with its own health warning. Eager to make sure that their latest advertising cam...
Police mistake ghost hunters for burglars
A group of people on a ghost tour in Gettysburg were arrested after police mistook them for burglers. The group had been touring an allegedly haunted ...

Dec 03

Legends revisited: the Mary Celeste
The fate of the Mary Celeste remains one of the most enigmatic and pervasive mysteries of all time. The story goes that the ship was discovered adrift...
Crocodiles use tools to hunt birds
Crocodiles and alligators have been observed using a special technique to lure and catch birds. In recent years reptiles have been recognized as being...
China launches lunar lander mission
China has successfully launched its latest lunar spacecraft in a bid to place a rover on the moon. Chang'e 3 is the third spacecraft that China has se...

Dec 02

Are phobias passed down through DNA ?
Scientists believe that phobias may be passed down between generations through a person's DNA. Traditionally it was thought that memories and experien...
Amazon to launch drone delivery service
The online retail giant is testing a new delivery system that used unmanned drones to send parcels. The drones, called Octocopters, would be ca...
New species of wild cat discovered
A completely new cat species known as the tigrina has been identified in northeastern Brazil. The discovery was made when two populations of cats that...

Dec 01

Are we a cross between a pig and a chimp ?
One of the world's leading hybridization experts believes that humans did not evolve entirely from apes. Dr Eugene McCarthy has turned the conventiona...
Dendelion grows inside girl's ear
Doctors in China have successfully removed a dandelion found growing in the ear of a 16-month-old girl. Ranran's parents had taken her to see a doctor...
CERN runs new anti-gravity experiment
Physicists at CERN are attempting to test whether or not antimatter has anti-gravitational properties. One of the more enigmatic materials believed to...

Nov 30

Japan to place giant solar belt around moon
A Japanese firm is aiming to build a huge 250-mile-wide belt of solar panels around the moon's equator. In a bid to help solve Japan's energy problems...
Oldest known Buddhist shrine discovered
Traces of an ancient wooden structure have been found within the sacred Mayadevi temple in Lumbini. The structure dates back to around the sixth centu...

Nov 29

Has Comet Ison been destroyed ?
The 'comet of the century' didn't survive its close encounter with the sun and appears to have broken up. While it was always a possibility that the s...
Prehistoric 'communal toilet' unearthed
A vast latrine dating back more than 240 million years has been discovered in Argentina. Thought to be the "world's oldest public toilet", the site ha...
Ronnie Vannucci Jr. recalls UFO encounter
The Killers' drummer has recounted his own experience with a UFO during a recent magazine interview. Now a staple part of one of the world's biggest p...

Nov 28

NASA plans to grow plants on the moon
One of NASA's new upcoming projects will attempt to grow plants on the moon for the first time. The Lunar Plant Growth Habitat team consists of scient...

Nov 27

Comet Ison set to provide spectacular show
It will soon be crunch time for the 'comet of the century' as it passes through the corona of the sun. Originally a resident of the Oort cloud, a larg...
'Monster' skate caught off Miami beach
A fisherman from Florida has made headlines after catching a massive 800-pound skate fish. Captain Mark Quartiano, who also goes by the nickname "Mark...
Woman records news on 140,000 VHS tapes
Marion Stokes took it upon herself to single-handedly record over 35 years worth of news from the TV. Between 1977 and 2012 Marion spent a great deal ...

Nov 26

Hanging Gardens of Babylon site discovered?
An Oxford University academic believes she has found the precise location of the ancient wonder. The legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of ...
Man has ability to 'taste' words and sounds
James Wannerton possesses the unusual ability to derive an actual physical taste from places and names. The 54-year-old suffers from a rare neurologic...
Moose-eating shark saved from choking
Two men in Newfoundland have been credited with saving a shark from choking to death on a moose. Sharks have something of a reputation for taking a bi...

Nov 25

Man films mysterious light over Canterbury
Sasha Shaker used his iPad to record footage of a strange glowing sphere as it danced across the sky. Sasha and his wife Carly had been returning home...
Awe inspires belief in the supernatural
Awe-inspiring scenes such as the Grand Canyon have been found to invoke supernatural beliefs. The claim is based on research conducted by a team from ...
Oldest Mars meteorite found in the Sahara
A rock discovered in the Sahara desert has turned out to be the oldest Martian meteorite ever found. In the not-too-distant future scientists hope to ...

Nov 24

Efforts renewed to clone extinct goat
Spanish scientists are redoubling their efforts to clone the bucardo which died out 13 years ago. The bucardo, an extinct mountain goat that is a sub-...
Stonehenge source discovered in Wales
Archaeologists admit that they've been looking for clues in the wrong place for almost 100 years. For the longest time the huge stone slabs that make ...
Black widows found in supermarket grapes
A shopper who had bought a bunch of grapes returned home to find more than she had bargained for. Yvonne Whalen had bought the grapes from a Giant Foo...

Nov 23

Astronomers observe huge cosmic explosion
A powerful supernova in a distant galaxy has produced the largest gamma ray burst ever detected. Referred to by scientists as "the monster", the enorm...
Ancient wine cellar discovered in Israel
A large wine collection has been found in the ruins of a cellar dating back more than 3700 years. The ancient collection was unearthed beneath a ruine...

Nov 22

Who terrorizes the tyrannosaurs ?
A newly discovered dinosaur is believed to have been more than a match for the relatives of T. rex. Known as Siats meekerorum, the 40ft long me...

Nov 21

'Poltergeist' disturbs Luton restaurant table
CCTV footage from Jimmy’s World Grill and Bar in Luton shows chairs and cutlery moving on their own. The peculiar footage, which seems to show objects...
Space station celebrates its 15th birthday
The International Space Station is now 15 years old and is expected to continue until at least 2028. When the first module of the station went in to s...
Glowing lake mysteriously goes dark
A lake in Puerto Rico that usually glows green has suddenly gone dark and nobody seems to know why. The enigmatic lake is a popular tourist attraction...

Nov 20

Massive 'alien' squid captured on video
A huge 26ft long magnapinna squid has been filmed by Shell from one of its submersible vehicles. Like a creature from an alien planet or the war machi...
'Gate to Hell' guardian statues recovered
Two marble statues associated with the recently discovered 'Gate to Hell' cave have been unearthed. The so-called "Gate to Hell", otherwise known as P...

Nov 19

NASA's Maven Mars mission launches
The next spacecraft headed for the Red Planet has launched successfully from Cape Canaveral. Rather than landing on the surface like the Curiosity rov...
Viking apocalypse due in february next year
According to Norse mythology the Vikings have their own version of doomsday and it is fast approaching. The end of the world has come and gone several...
Active volcano discovered in Antarctica
Researchers have uncovered an active volcano deep below the thick Antarctic ice sheet. The discovery represents the first time active volcanism has be...

Nov 18

Does biocentrism prove there is an afterlife?
Professor Robert Lanza believes the answer to life after death lies in the science of quantum physics. Understanding what happens to us after we die i...
Ice hotel forced to install fire alarms
A hotel in Sweden made entirely out of ice has been ordered to install alarms in case there is a fire. Located in the Arctic town of Jukkasjarvi, the ...
Robots allow doctors to 'beam' in to hospital
Sophisticated mobile teleconferencing machines are making it possible for doctors to help more patients. These remarkable remote presence machines al...



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